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First came the boom. Ed Cable heard it driving home Nov. 21 on a lonely stretch of highway about eight miles south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was loud enough to make him hit the brakes. Then came the explosion--"right beside me," Cable says. "I immediately got off the highway and got out of the car." Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50˘ piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that...
...Regardless of outcome, it will hardly be the first time that Serbia has weathered bad leaders. And while the new crop may be reactionary, they won't be marching Serbia back to war anytime soon, even though sometimes it can feel that way. On a chilly recent evening in downtown Belgrade, several dozen police in full riot gear fanned out to block a major thoroughfare. Passersby looked on in alarm, until it became apparent that it was a stunt, designed to publicize the opening of a new film about the violent 1996-97 anti-Milosevic riots. As for Milosevic...
...Does this mean that the attacks on U.S. soldiers every day, the roadside bombs and downtown ambushes and mortars fired at headquarters would die away? There never was good evidence that Saddam was controlling the insurgency, and the circumstances in which he was found - hiding in a hole, accompanied by an entourage of only two - suggest he was too isolated to play any central role. However, his arrest could still profoundly rattle the resistance. The Pentagon estimated that nine of 10 insurgents were former regime loyalists. To the extent they were driven by a rational agenda - restoring the old regime...
...studio in South Africa. She’s also considering getting a masters’ degree in art education, going to film school and traveling to Greece, where her mother is from, and making a film about her family background. Another path is creating a photo history of downtown Johannesburg, combining archival imagery with her photos and interviews into a book...
...Affable and self-effacing, Matsui certainly has the quickest smile east of Yokohama. On this brisk, autumn afternoon in downtown Tokyo, he wears it with a black velvet blazer, a black silk shirt and the gold peace medallion his wife, Mio, gave him in October for his 28th birthday...